While America’s parents have been wringing their hands over online safety, kids have steadily taken to social media, smartphones, and other digitally-enabled technologies to seek and promote their physical safety.
Horses were omnipresent in the West until only a few generations ago, but then they were replaced by machines and disappeared from our streets as well as our consciousness.
Well-researched stories from around the web that bridge the gap…
An interview with scholar Susie Steinbach, a professor of history at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
A new study from the Western Ghats suggests that coffee cultivation does not interfere with bird biodiversity, regardless of what type of bean is grown.
A sociological explanation for why the Bay’s homelessness epidemic is so intractable.
The Thames Tunnel, the world’s first underwater tunnel, is still in use 175 years after its long-delayed opening, but you can’t shop there anymore.
The Hays Code, a censorship system that saw movies as “business, pure and simple,” kept Hollywood on a short leash… until a 1952 Supreme Court decision declared it unconstitutional.
Pinker on the dark side of political correctness, the differences between men and women, the media’s violence bias, and his differences with Bill Gates on artificial intelligence.
“Ghana tells us that the forces of the universe are on the side of justice… An old order of colonialism, of segregation, discrimination is passing away now.”
What’s behind the Australian habit of nicknaming and abbreviating everything? Nicknames may just reveal how Australians see themselves and relate to each other.
Censorship isn’t just redacted text and banned words. What happens when censorship is furtive, flying under the radar as much as possible?
At some point in their lexical histories, lost words’ original meanings died and have been revived into a mere semblance of their former selves.
While America’s parents have been wringing their hands over online safety, kids have steadily taken to social media, smartphones, and other digitally-enabled technologies to seek and promote their physical safety.
Would today’s online, social media-based friendships look familiar to the letter-writing friends of earlier centuries, when epistolary friendships were also common?
In the case of envy, social media works in three closely related ways: by increasing proximity, by eliminating encapsulation and by rejecting concealment.
